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SoleSoul

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-29

Posts: 319

Need a suggestion for a DNS server (BIND etc...)

I am a student in college. I got a little job to help improve the internal DNS management in the college.
Right now they use BIND with nothing else. They edit the zone files by hand. Since the network is quite large, it's sometimes hard to maintain these files.

There are three possibilities:
1) use webmin.
2) use DLZ (still BIND, but uses a database backend)
3) use another DNS server software.

I would really appreciate your advice about:
1) lets assume webmin doesn't support a particular record of the DNS, and I update it manually via directly editing the files, will it interfere with webmin?
2) did you try DLZ? I don't know if it worth the work. Does it noticeably change the performance? Is there a decent GUI for editing the records when using a database?
3) I've heard many good things about PowerDNS. Is it really the best DNS server around? What GUI options does it have? Do you want to recommend another solution?

Thank you!

hw-tph

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Registered: 2006-11-01

Posts: 149

Re: Need a suggestion for a DNS server (BIND etc...)

dnsmasq is hands down the easiest DNS (and DHCP!) solution if it works for your network setup. If you let it handle both DHCP and DNS it will dynamically add DHCP client host names to the DNS so you can look up local DHCP clients by DNS.

I am by no means a DNS expert, but dnsmasq just makes it all so easy.